The role of government in health care before the 1920s did not exist people died from diseases at home and not in hospitals because doctors did not have enough knowledge about disease to provide the proper medical care that people needed. As time went on doctors started to learn about disease and how to treat them that made them charge more money for their services that they provided which, made treatment unaffordable and because several of the treatments had to be done in hospitals that further added to the expense. This was also the beginning of the Great Depression and so the medical attention that was once affordable became even more unattainable. In 1929 a group of Dallas teachers created the Baylor plan that charged $6 as a way to ensure that people paid their bills this created the concept of the pre-paid hospital service plans. Due the popularity of the plans other insurance companies decided to enter the health care market that increased competition and increased the cost of healthcare. During this time they also offered incentives and tax breaks to have employees to start offering health insurance packages. In 1940 to 1960 Health Insurance increased and technology became more advanced during The Kennedy administration the government decided to test the waters and offer government sponsored healthcare to the elderly. This began the offering of Medicare and Medicaid the idea of this was to offer coverage to the poor, elderly, and recently retired. These groups where those that government felt where medically needy those not covered by any employee health insurance. To get doctors to provide services under this new medial plan and accept the guidelines that needed to be followed they agreed to pay them there usual customary rate for taking care of the people under this medical plan. We are now well into the 21st century, and